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September 6, 2011: Yahoo! Carol Bartz Fired via Email

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2011 – Carol Bartz sends an email to her (former) staff at Yahoo!

To all:

I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.

-Carol

2001 – Mark Cuban and Phillip Garvin launch HDNet, the first High Definition TV signals. It was available both through cable and satellite television. The channel got some news for their exclusive HD coverage of the US invasion of Afghanistan.

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  • Facebook Botnets
  • NBC changes from Silverlight to Flash
  • MP3.com pays 250 Million
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September 5, 2007: Lulu sued Hulu over Similar Name

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Lulu.com

2007 – Lulu.com is a site that allows people to publish their own books. Hulu.com is an online video site. Still, Lulu felt that Hulu was way too close to their name, so they decided to file a lawsuit for similarity.Similarity of what?

Now if you want to go sue someone who is backed by NBC Universal, you have a lot of marbles. Nonetheless, it sounds more like a publicity stunt for Lulu to get their name out. Well, the lawsuit was dropped on Oct. 22, and Hulu launched in Beta. Ultimately, by March 12th, 2008, Hulu.com was officially launched.

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  • Jerry Seinfeld / Bill Gates commercials start
  • Facebook opens the search feature to non-Facebook members
  • Mytunes Redux
  • STRETCH is decommissioned.
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September 4, 2008: Apple Removed “Pull My Finger” Application

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2008– A letter was published from the creator of “Pull my Finger” iPhone application from Apple. The program was simple – you pull the finger and a sound was created (You can guess the sound). The letter read:

We’ve reviewed your application Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user community, and will not be published to the App Store. It may be very appropriate to share with friends and family, and we recommend you review the Ad Hoc method on the Distribution tab of the iPhone Developer Portal for details on distributing this application among a small group of people of your choosing.

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  • Palm cancels the Foleo
  • RAMAC 305 is introduced
  • Internet Demo Site
eBay

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September 3, 1995: AuctionWeb (eBay) Founded

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1995 – The online auction site eBay officially was founded on this day by Pierre Omidyar, but it was known back then as “AuctionWeb“. The first auction was for a broken laser pointer. It was sold for $14.83.Makes me wonder how much that laser pointer would be worth if it went back up on the auction block.

The hobby became a business real quick when his server fees increased dramatically. He decided to take AuctionWeb to the next level and hire an employee – Chris Agarpao. Soon, eBay got their first president in 1996 when Jeffrey Skoll took the reins.

Since then the company has grown to a juggernaut in the online Auction business. They even have an ebay slot machine. Just like the auction site, I personally didn’t do too well in profiting from it…

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  • Lotus ships “Lotus 1-2-3”
  • HP acquires Compaq
  • Hubble photographs HUDF
Chrome

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September 1, 2008: Google Chrome “Accidentally” Released

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2008 – It was hailed as a “Mistake” on their blog. With that, Google Chrome is released in Beta on Windows machines. The new browser takes a lot of people by surprise as this was a pretty secretive project – that is, until the comic was released. Google then blogged about it saying:

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

The browser was suppose to be announced on Sept 3rd. The download was available to the general public on Sept 2nd.

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  • IPv4 is officially released in 1981.
  • The iMac G3 begins shipping
  • IBM announces Copper based processors
  • The first meeting of the “Virtual Library” project is held
Adobe - Aldus

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Adobe Finalizes Merger of Aldus

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Adobe – Aldus

August 31, 1994: Adobe finalizes the merger with Aldus to try and create a new powerful desktop manager. Aldus brought to the table a desktop publishing program in “PageMaker”. The program was first created in 1985 and used the emerging Graphical User Interface in both Mac and PC environments. This also allowed Adobe to control the TIFF file format.

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  • Apple announces 2 million iMac
  • Emulex Corporation hoax
  • PHPMyAdmin released
Virus

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August 29, 2003: b. variant Blaster tracked down

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August 29, 2003: Jeffrey Lee Parson was arrested from his home in Minneapolis MN. He was suspected to be developer of the b. variant of the Blaster virus. The virus would turn infected computers into a unit that would give windowsupdate.microsoft.com a Denial of Service by simply flooding it with requests.

The Secret Service worked by tracing this virus to the source via the information super highway. That is what wound them to Jeffrey Lee Parson.

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  • Ciao Microsoft
  • Netscape 7.0 is released
  • 3dfx vs. Sega
Psystar

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Apple Clone Psystar Counter-sues Apple

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Psystar

August 28, 2008 – Psystar came on the scene earlier in the year with a machine that would contain Windows, Linux or Mac software. Of course, this has not been without controversy. Apple finally put together a lawsuit, but instead of Psystar accepting, they decided to countersue. The reason why: Anticompetitive Nature.

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  • The SCO Group is born
  • Bloomberg publishes Steve Jobs death
  • Scientific American is first published
  • Powerbook 5300 recall
  • New Google Hangouts in HD using the VP8 Codec
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